Yea, I tried a really early version and it slipped my mind to ever get back to it – I did use NewtonScript a bit – I was one of the few that liked the Newton, probably because I hate talking on the phone, lol. It was pretty good on the last release of the Newton. I still have it somewhere but I put it in a box in my last move and haven’t come across it again. I like the iPhone ok, but I rarely answer calls, I use it as anything but a phone.
Planning to run up a version if I can get one that will run on Solaris 11, or at least I can rebuild the VM for it – I have a couple of T2000’s and a couple of T5120’s – 64 threads and 64GB RAM should be plenty 😉. Right now a bit short of time for just playing though.
Andrew Glynn
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> On 6 Nov 2017, at 21:00 , Andrew Glynn <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Btw, did Self ever work? At all? The last I remember it was in a similar state to Electron without the M$ adds in Visual Studio, i.e. the samples from the site don’t build.
Self worked fine. It was a bit memory-hungry on the machines of the early 1990s, but I taught a class on OOP using it in about 1996 or 1997.
The NewtonScript language for the ill-fated Newton tablet was essentially Self. A bit ahead of its time — it would run fine in today’s mobile phones.
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